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[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 308: ‘Shit a brick. Can you come back later?’.
at shit a brick!, excl.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 237: [J]ust got messed around and frustrated, run around by someone else’s agenda.
at mess about, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 477: ‘The Seer was chill, had his act together’.
at have one’s act together (v.) under act, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 45: ‘I haven’t found fuck-all’.
at fuck all, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 212: Not the big players, not the hedge funds and whatnot, but retail. Mum and dad investors.
at mum and dad, adj.2
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 101: Cricket was for the Anglos, not for sophisticated Europeans.
at anglo, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 260: ‘Your presence here is a right royal pain in the arse’.
at give someone a pain in the arse (v.) under pain in the arse, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 381: ‘[A]fter talking to Reg, I realised I got one aspect arse about face’.
at arse about face under arse, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 45: ‘[I]s there anyone else who would have access to Jonas’s mine?’ ‘Not since he arseholed Stanley Honeywell’.
at arsehole, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 52: ‘So you haven’t seen anything else unusual round here lately?’ he asks. [...] ‘Sure as shit have’.
at sure as shit under sure as..., phr.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 78: ‘[H]e’s thick as two short planks’.
at ...two short planks under thick as..., adj.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 335: ‘Stuff the caring professions. I wanted a kick-arse profession’.
at kick-ass, adj.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 336: ‘So that’s why you became a copper. So you could kick arse’.
at kick ass, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 291: ‘[H]e was taking backhanders [...] He was crooked, Nell. As a dog’s hind leg’.
at back-hander, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 167: ‘[H]is balls are black and blue—the size of oranges’.
at balls, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 394: ‘I’m not going to bust their balls [...] I want to thank them’.
at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 266: ‘I beat the shit out of him’.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 40: ‘[H]e [...] became a bible basher, did a lot of good works.
at bible-basher (n.) under bible, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 196: Blindsided. Some arsehole crept up from behind and laid waste to him.
at blindside, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 14: Blowback. The revenge of the od guard.
at blowback, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 268: ‘Couldn’t bear the thought of him blubbing’.
at blub, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 319: ‘How’d he take it?’ ‘Not well.’ ‘You had a blue?’ [...] ‘Nah. We don’t fight’.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 194: ‘Red-headed bogan in a company truck. Big bloke’.
at bogan, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 38: ‘One of his God-bothering mates’.
at God-bothering, adj.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country : she sees the bowling club, the ‘bowlo’, the biggest building in town, its social hub,.
at bowlo, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 235: ‘Here’s a tip: invest in rare earths. It’s a no-brainer’.
at no-brainer, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 146: [H]is private holding company, Bulldust Investments.
at bulldust, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 69: T thought people were bullshitting.
at bullshit, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 327: ‘Thought they’d given him the bum’s rush’.
at bum’s rush, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Opal Country 152: [T]he whole town is going to know he bought a burner.
at burner, n.1
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